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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that there is no longer any censorship in Cuba, I want to tell you what a great service TIME performed during the past year. Because you had to print it in the U.S. more often than not, it often arrived late-but it arrived, and was the best way we had of keeping in touch with what was going on right here. That Dec. 1 map showing which parts of Cuba were under Castro control was the first information many of us had that the July 26th movement had won control of so much of this island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...traffic violations, I am sure this grandiose plan would fade very quickly. New York police have been coddling teamsters long enough by closing too many an eye in violation cases. Just let them get the same measure of tickets the average private New York driver is presented with - often unreasonably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Often peace is identified with the imposition by strong nations of their 'benevolent' rule upon the weaker," said Dulles. "Most of these efforts collapsed in war . . . But the world of today is very different from the world of past centuries. It cannot be ruled. Hence the time is ripe for the rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: NO NOBLER MISSION | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

South Viet Nam. Under President Ngo Dinh Diem, Viet Nam remains stoutly antiCommunist. Despite nearly five years of heavy U.S. economic and military aid -currently amounting to about 75% of the nation's budget-it often opposes U.S. attitudes and policy with a proud nationalism all its own. Viet Nam seems securely under the control of the President and his family: one of his brothers is regarded as the grey eminence behind the President, another is an influential Roman Catholic bishop, a third the governor of central Viet Nam. His pretty sister-in-law, Madame Ngo (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Communism on the Defensive | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...years of democracy," rumbled Orson Welles in the film The Third Man, "the only thing the Swiss have invented is the cuckoo clock." This gibe was not even correct: a German in the Black Forest invented the cuckoo clock. But it barely ruffled the Swiss, who often appear to think that they, not the Greeks, invented democracy, and that only they understand its proper practice. The cardinal rule of Switzerland's unwritten democratic law is that only men shall vote. In the rest of Europe, only tiny Liechtenstein and Monaco also deny the ballot to women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Women Without the Vote | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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